John Birmingham

John Birmingham is a columnist and blogger for the Brisbane Times. He is also an award winning magazine writer and the author of Leviathan, the Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, which won the National Award for Non-Fiction. He amuses himself in his down time by writing novels which improve with altitude.

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A foreign crime wave full of foreigners is sweeping our fair city and I quake in anticipation of the swift and terrible action by the Department for Blaming Foreigners for Everything. It is time for the blacksuits to go to war with the Irish.

12 March 2018

by John Birmingham

Opinion

I loved the exuberant insanity of that place, the head-cracking super-densities of sugar and stupidity compressed into doughnut form and further squeezed beneath under layer after layer of consume-and-die excess.

I spent my best worst ever Christmas here in Brisbane, with my brother, in a share house up on Stuartholme Road. The house was OK and my brother was cool. None of the other flatmates were criminally insane. It should have been a reasonable time.